John Burnside Quotes

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

I wanted to be a painter.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.